systemd vconsole and root-symlink services take unholy time to finish.. What do they do exactly?

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#1

Can I skip them?

#2

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#3 
~> systemd-analyze 
Startup finished in 5974ms (kernel) + 10596ms (userspace) = 16571ms


~> systemd-analyze blame | head
  1598ms systemd-udev-root-symlink.service
  1238ms NetworkManager.service
  1087ms systemd-logind.service
  1010ms dev-hugepages.mount
   788ms rtkit-daemon.service
   743ms systemd-remount-fs.service
   697ms home.mount
   588ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
   447ms xdm.service
   433ms systemd-modules-load.service

OpenSuSE 12.3 RC1 Live KDE x86_64

I have already cut out from systemd (systemctl mask):
systemVinit & zoo
consolekit (and kde suspend/resume/power off/on work, so maybe its bug that console kit is still in?)
some networking, some mounting (debug…)

Started from 26 sec -> 19 sec just by readahead -> 16 sec.

(I also did slashed initrd size from 19MiB to 8MiB, but that only speeded startup by 0,5 sec !)

Now. I want to know what vconsole do (already masked it, whatever it is I do not miss it yet), and what systemd-udev-root-symlink do. Cuase systemd-analyze plot show them as main blockers.

Systemd-analyze plot after readahead kicked in but before optimalizations:
http://i.minus.com/jb05ikeennGns5.jpg](http://minus.com/lb05ikeennGns5)

after optimialization:
http://i.minus.com/jsMj72qrQ60N8.jpg](http://minus.com/lsMj72qrQ60N8)

#4

So my total time is just over 5 seconds to your 16, but I use a SSD and in general, for a regular hard drive, yours does not seem all that bad but in fact seems pretty good to me. Have you thought about buying an SSD by chance?

Thank You,

#5

Sets font and keyboard layout on tty

and what systemd-udev-root-symlink do

What is not clear in service descriptions?

Description=create /dev/root symlink with dynamic rule

#6

And please, next time use SUSE Paste to show images. I am greeted with advertisement when I try your links and personally have no intention to click further. Thank you.

#7
  1. It take mighty long time to set up fonts and keyboard layout on those tty’s, and its prereq for 3/4 of all stuff that is executed by systemd on my notebook.
  2. It take mighty long time to set /dev/root, and its prereq for 3/4 of all stuff that is executed by systemd.

(Yes I must disable/repair both of those to gain 1/2 sec!)

So how can I manually set /dev/root (is it just “/” ?)